[HN Gopher] Universal Railway Bus
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       Universal Railway Bus
        
       Author : laurensr
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-05-01 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arduinorailwaycontrol.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arduinorailwaycontrol.com)
        
       | flemhans wrote:
       | Any suggestions for a semi usable track system for moving small
       | items around the house or office?
       | 
       | Most such systems are made for industry and very expensive.
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       | Would be fun to make a railway that could move soft drinks around
       | the building or pick items from the shed and deliver to the
       | workshop.
        
         | jerrysievert wrote:
         | have you considered lego? "L gauge" is a fun standard, plus
         | having the extensibility and parts via lego is pretty amazing.
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | Pretty cool for train hobbyists.
       | 
       | ...although from the title, I was expecting some kind of bus that
       | runs on train tracks :P
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | Would this have any advantages over trams, though? I can think
         | of one disadvantage: rails would be higher than the road,
         | disrupting cars and bicycles, whereas the grooves that trams
         | follow can usually be crossed by cars or bicycles.
        
         | nicole_express wrote:
         | Have you heard of the FCD Railbus? An experiment by the New
         | Haven Railroad in the 1950's to do just that...
         | 
         | In the end, it was more cost-effective for the New Haven to
         | just go bankrupt
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | In case you haven't seen the recent Tom Scott video about a bus
         | that rides the rails in Japan: https://youtu.be/Kn56bMZ9OE8
        
       | mixdup wrote:
       | This is neat, and as someone who wants to eventually build a
       | layout in his basement I'm glad there's continued development of
       | these types of projects, but I'm not sure I see how this is going
       | to be simpler than DCC. The complexity of programming DCC is
       | called out, but reprogramming and designing an "infinitely
       | variable" Arduino based solution is almost certainly going to be
       | way more complex
       | 
       | Maybe that complexity is the selling point, in that you may be
       | able to do things DCC can't, but approaching this as easier than
       | DCC seems off base
        
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